Cybercriminals shifted their focus from January through June to take advantage of global interest in the pandemic. The risk to businesses was compounded by security gaps created by a completely remote workforce.

Trend Micro’s Head in the Clouds study is distilled from interviews with 13,200 remote workers across 27 countries, including 502 remote working knowledge workers in the UAE.

With many employees working from home, businesses can expect a huge spike of personal file storing coming in from external sources. This is the perfect opportunity for malicious malware to make their way into servers, potentially corrupting a network of data.